Which book-based movies would you give two thumbs up? Which did you like better: the book or the film? Did you miss any characters who were cut from the movie? And if YOU were in the director’s chair, which of your favorite books would you make into a movie — and who would star?

Here’s your chance to share your opinions with other kids on the STACKS — so join in, March 14th!

loren
the twilight books were awesome and in totally agree about the movie letdown,this is kind of freaky but ive read all the books 5-6 times,i can practiclly qoute the whole book,me and my freind always annoy my mom by qouting every twilight line right beforre the characters say it.

hi,i was wondering does anyone knnow when or if “GOLDENCOMPASS2″ will come out because i watched the first one last night and it ended at a total cliffhanger and the first ones been out forever.my favorite book is the maximum ride series.im on the 6th one,cant wait till angel comes out on febuary 14,i cant believe that i read somewhere the movie wouldn’t be out till 2013,i dont think i can wait that long somebody please tell me that it comes out earlier than that
thanks i’d apprcaite it,
katibear11

I’m new so I don’t know what to say.Well… my favorite book is goosebumps.They are the best!I read cuckoo clock of doom.That wasn’t scary.NONE of em are scary.The only thing that creeps my out is slappy.*brrr* he is super duper creppy.

my fav book is any from the twilight series i am a twi fanatic hints the name twi-hard i am a hard twilight fan only a true twi-hare would know team jacob if u watch twilght leave a comment on ur fav team TEAM JACOB

I think the Uglies Series should make a movie. I loved that series, full of adventure! The last book was weird though because it just switched characters and it was nothing like the other books in the series, because in the first 3 books it was about a girl named Tally, then in the last book it was about a girl named Axa, it was weird but other than that it was a great series!

Beacon Street Girls series should turn into a movie! Its already a big hit, but Harry Potter is awesome too I read the whole series and it was awesome I’m reading Beacon Street Girls right now its awesome!

I love all how i survived middle school series because it is kind of funny and it seems real everyone should check it out and if you guys get your hands on the book you guys will really love it and never regret reading it.

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo because Charlie Bone is my favorite series. There is a compony that I think is making it.
Logan Lerman would star as Charlie Bone.
If you guys have read the series I like to hear who you think should star as Gabriel Silk, Manfred Bloor, Benjamin Brown, Tancred Torsson, Lysander Sage,Dagbert Endless, Emma Tolly, Olivia Vertigo, Uncle Paton, Amy Bone, Grizelda, Venita,
Lucredia, Estuchia, Masie, Cook, Idith Branko, Zelda Dobinski and all of the other characters (of couse not all in the same movie because different kids come to Bloor’s and different times)I think they should make a movie on all the books! See you guys on The Stacks!

I’m SO happy that ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ is being made into a movie! But, a book that I’d want to be a movie is ‘Julia Gillian and the Art of Knowing.’ It’s a really good book. It’d be an even BETTER movie!

I ‘m making yet another change to my previous post about the Alice books (young adult) being made into a movie.Meaghan Jette Martin (or however you spell her name) from Camp Rock would be perfect for Pamela!Except,she would have to get her hair cut realllly short.P.S:The choices for Alice,Lester,Patrick,and Elizabeth in the Alice Upside Down movie weren’t good at all!Alice and Patrick were supposed to have red hair,Elizabeth is not black,Lester looked too young,and Alice looked too old!The movie was great,though,because they did that famous Alice-meets-Patrick-in-the-dressing-room scene.

Heeeey!!! im new to this and i really want people to check out my page and become my friends! I love Twilight, Harry Potter and Dear Dumb Diary, so if you like any of these and want to talk about them, check me out!!! Thanx
ilovepugs17

I think Chicken Soup books are great because they teach you lessons,others peoples problems,their lives,and they tell us things that we should never do in our lives.I think those books are awsome!THANKS SCHOLASTIC FOR MAKING THOSE BOOKS FOR ME TO ENJOY!!!!!!

High school musical one wouldnt have been a great book because the movie adds so many details and who doesnt like details.High school musical 2 would have been an awesome book because the movie doesnt add so many details… For you guys who have a scholastic profile that is how i found out about the live chat about books vs. movies which is better sometimes they both could be the same so no one
needs to get into arguments about which is better usally they both are about equal…Well if you keep fighting over which is better everyone will just hate you for what you have started and you never ended it…So just quit fighting over which is better movie or book because no one will like you if dont stop as quick as possible…Please just quit because no one likes when bets friends fight or when brothers and sisters fight it is just no fun to watch people fight over which is better a movie or a book …So dont fight over something stupid like a book and a movie….

I thought that Hannah Montana the movie would have been better than a book called Hannah Montana the movie or called Hannah Montana the book just like the movie.That would have been the stupidest title no offence.If anyone has ever heard of a book like that it must have been centries and centries ago because I have never ever heard of a book titled like that it would have been just so stupid to write a book like that…

dear, everyone i just want to say my favorite book of all time is twilight!. some of these comments say that they don’t like twilight or they think it is ”DUMB”well i don’t think it is dumb i think it is great.

hello i am gerardo and my favrite author is andrew clements and his book that i like is things not seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A book I think should be a movie would have to be Lightning Thief. That was an excellent novel. I read it 5 times. The first time I read it I kept thinking the main character, Percy Jackson, was going to die. But in the end, he didn’t. Absolutely stunning!

they need to make Maximum Ride or The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (both books are young adult) into a movie! LOVE THOSE BOOKS! But, I am worried that the movies may ruin the book. Making movies out of books strip away the entire visual that you gain from reading a descriptive novel. Oh well, there are some good ones…. some.

I believe the best book/movie would come from the book Al Capone Does My Shirts. It’s got everything from friendships, criminals, siblings, and kids with disabilities in it. It would make for one interesting film!

SORRY TO ALL OF THE WARRIOR CATS FANS I HAVE NEVER READ IT SO I REALLY DON’T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT. BUT THE SERIES THAT I LOVE IS THE WEDDING PLANNERS DAUGHTER… IF YOU HAVE NEVER READ IT YOU SHOULD, BUT ANYWAY I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT MADE INTO A MOVIE.
PEACE PEOPLE!:)

i looooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeee the movie twilight. i watch it at least 2 times a day. i think i have had the movie for about 2 monthes and i have watched it about 92 times. it is awesome. super fantabulus.the best movie/book eva

i THINK ALFRED KROPP (Young Adult) SHOULD BE MADE INTO A MOVIE! tHE BOOK IS SO ACTION PACKED. thERE IS CAR RACES AND SWORD FIGHTS! EVEN GUN FIGHTS! IF IT’S MADE INTO A MOVIE, I WOULD GO SEE IT IN A HEART BEAT.

This is the best website I’ve ever found out about.My friend was on this website one day so I asked her if she could make me one and ever since I’ve been on this website.I love this site so much everyday I go on this site.

hey i just wanted to say OMG i read all the Allie Finkle books expect the sleepover book and OMG i saw miranda cosgrove reading the first book and she just anounced that she will be in in her new movie iCarly iGo to Japan its sooo cool

it’s 3/18, now i read the announcement! well, what can i do, it’s exams! on saturday 3/14 term tests started, so anyways i wouldn’t have been able to join! well i hope you had fun!! may be next time (i had a feeling that i was going to miss something big!)

I love TWILIGHT, but at the moment I’m reading THE CITY OF BONES which happens to be an extremely awesome book. I also enjoy Harry Potter but the movies are a little vague. My favorite movie that I want to see again is actually THUNDERBIRDS. Which is awsome and features Vanessa Hudgens from a long time ago.

WARRIORS WARRIORS WARRIORS!
TWILIGHT TWILIGHT TWILIGHT!
I’ve read all the books for these sagas that have came out!
Twilight the book was better than the movie, what a let done!
They should make Warriors into a movie I don’t care if it’s not a HAPPY FAMILY movie!

I love the Inkheart series, I’m reading Inkdeath I heard the movie wasn’t good I’m so mad! They should also make Dragon Rider a movie. They did a horocious (atrocious and horrible, get it?) job on the Harry Potter movies they’re aweful! Blech!

Harry Potter is off the CHAIN! The movies stick so well to the books. I know Nancy Drew isn’t a Scholastic book, but since they made computer and a DS game(s), they should make movies for ALL 56 books.
Luv,
gryffindor_slitherin_girl98

Well, you know I can say a ton about that. Harry Potter was totally better as a book, no questions asked, but the first couple movies were okay. Then the quality dropped, I think, when the directors started changing.
Some awesome books whose movies stank were The Devil’s Arithmetic and The Princess Diaries. I guess I’m in no place to insult The Princess Diaries movie because I never watched it, but one of my friends tried to do a book report on it and just watch the movie, and I’m not saying that was right or anything but it REALLY didn’t work out.
The movie is TOTALLY different and kind of ridiculous if you ask me.
The Devil’s Arithmetic is another story. If it hadn’t been titled ‘The Devil’s Arithmetic’ I might think, “Hmm, plot is kinda similar to that book I read. Going back in time to the Holocaust.” That’s about all that’s the same between the book and movie- the going back in time to the Holocaust factor. Even without the differences from the book, The Devil’s Arithmetic is just a plain old bad movie. It’s missing details, is hard to understand, and has bad acting.
What books should be made into movies? Definitely Eva Ibbotson’s Secret of Platform 13, Island of the Aunts, Dial- a- Ghost, and Which Witch?. The Sisters Grimm series should also be made into a movie, and several of Meg Cabot’s and Gail Carson Levine’s books. (The Princess Diaries should definitely be given another chance to be a movie! And I would love to see Fairest.)
Anyway, that’s my opinion.

i think that the book eleven and the other books like twelve and the other books should be a movie if they are not a movie yet. it would be cool to see what they would do if it was a movie. it did not have pictures in it but u could picture what is going on.

Harry Potter is the best series of books on the face of this Earth! I don’t care what other people say about it. That’s their opinion. But one thing I know is: Harry Potter will always have a place in my heart.
<3 Harry Potter

My favorite movie is twilight. I watched the movie but never read the book. My mom said i can read it, in about 2 years. lol. My mom said the book is totally better than the movie. I kept on asking my mom questions about the movie like about every 5 minutes. LOL

Hey my name is pebbles and my favorite book is JADE GREEN: A GHOST STORY BY NAYLOR , PHYLLIS REYNOLDS I NEVER READ BOOKS BEFORE BUT WHEN I READ THIS BOOK I KEPT READING MORE BOOKS NOW I THINK I SPEND MORE TIMES READING THEN TEXTING ON MY PHONE LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG I love love love both twilight the ovie and the entire saga!They are the best books I have ever read!I live laugh love and BREATH Twilight! My fav. Character is Edward! AKA Robert. He is my life!OOOOOOECD!
OOOOOORPD!!!!!!!!!

I luvvvv Twilight,New moon,Eclipse, AND bREAKING dAWN. im looking forward for the books in edwards view and i really want to read the book the Host by stephenie meyer. The movie for twilight was okay but it wasnt as great as The book twilight.

DEER EVERY-ONE,
I LOVE YOUR BOOKS AND MOVIES I’VE SEEN AND READ THEM ALL. MY MOST FAVORITE IS THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS AND MOVIES. DANIEL RADLIFFE HARRY POTTER, THE PERSON YOU PLAY IS SO CUTE THAT I WISH HE WAS REAL. BY THE WAY MY BROTHER LOOKS ALOT LIKE YOU WHEN YOU WERE FIRST CHOSON TO PLAY HARRY POTTER.

The Clique books are great but they didn’t stay true to the books! The movie was great but they left out tons of parts. If I were the drectior I would stay true to the books and It would star Me and Ashely Tisdale!!!!!!!!!!

Awesome!I can’t wait to see what others think! So many books are being badly portrayed by Hollywood, either being way too sickeningly glamorized or just plain boring. The best book portrayl I think is of the Harry Potter series, considerng the movies stay closest to the books than others.

my fav book is all of stephine myer books including the book twilight and don’t you think edward cute alot of my friends at school thinks he is what about you . well back on the topic alot of people don’t like twlight but i’m not one of them tose book is the bomb!!!!!!!!

i was not aware of this site but our school distributed awesome scohlastic and i got to know it. ur site is awesome and encourages young writers to show their talent.thank u for launching this awesome site .i will suely be online on the 14th and watch.
ur biggest fan,
prashansa,dehradun,uttrakhand,
India

The book I REALLY want to see hit the big screen is Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher. But it would be really hard for them to make the part where Tiamat gets stuck in the portal between the Human World and the Dragon World. Sorry if that spoiled something if you’re reading it.

twilight was a great book -more like awesome-but the movie had 7 mistakes in the first 10 minutes!!! It didn’t show a lot of slimilarities other than the plot, and the detial was lacking a bit. I give the movie half a thumb and the book three thumbs and a foot (jk)

`my favorite movie is HSM3. It’s a awesome film and book. I think the film is better cause it gives more information than the book does. If I was directer i would have a show called The Toni Show. My mom, dad, sisters, and brother would be in it. if i chose a popstar it would be Sharpay Evans. A.K.A. Ashley tisdale